Drew started making masks and we started picking the ones we liked. It started with Drew, on tour with Circa Survive, and I think “masks” was the general idea. Switching topics to the new album Chuckles and Mr. Each record is a reaction to the last.Īn album of the year candidate? it's probably by default more of a record that likely will fall in the top 20-30, but its odds are low to become an everyday masterwork kind of record, so unlikely.Ģ.0 probably isn't too far away as this is starting to look like a Wikipedia entry. It kind of makes sense to change or alternate a bit. And I also have confidence that their next work will be more of a full 'Rock' and layered record as their others are. But the songs are still there it sounds like. I just am still of the feeling this won't be dredg's Road Salt or Buzzard (Pain of Salvation and Margot & the Nuclear So & So's). Kind of like Oceansize's Home and Minor EP. I did read something over on Traversing suggesting what may have been good to do with this record, is cut it down a bit and release it as an EP or Mini-album. And just read this entry and many other sources online. It sounds like a mix of ballads and synth-driven songs. But I don't get the sense it's music without value.

I mean different? yeah, but everything they've (the band) said is this album will be a lot different. All of the others from the second part, are invariably ecstatic and over-joyed.I love how so many people are shocked by hearing the samples and 'Upon Returning.'ĭat's cool and all, and I think the samples sound fine. The rational mind laments and is sad: that's why this is the only song from the second part of the album Catch Without Arms that has a sad theme in it.

And it's not a process of gain, but rather a process of loss: losing the ego, losing the boundaries between right and wrong until there are no more edges to love, and it can love everything unconditionally. He doesn't realize though that unconditional love is not something one earns, or even experiences, but just is. Where the logical mind used to be the most prevailing force of the person, now that he has become a mystic and is entering the Underhill stage of Union, the rational mind gets side-lined, becomes the Ornament, as the spiritual realm takes over.Įven the passage about unconditional love is seen through the rational mind, that it was hard-won, and not without hurt, and he sees unconditional love as a freedom that was earned. This is the lament of the rational mind, viewing all of the mystical development that the soul has gone through, and wishing it could just dissappear.

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